Some female parliamentsrians in the country have intensified calls for relevant stakeholders and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to come to their side by way of giving them somein financial support to enable them execute their mandate actively in their individual constituencies
According to them female parliamentarians, such move will ensure gender equality within the house of legislature and will also help them retain their seat
Currently both the Majority New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) have 20 female lawmakers each totaling 40 female lawmakers in the House of Parliament out of 275.
At a breakfast meeting by the Parliamentary Network Africa some female MPs bemoaned the current number of females in the House of legislature.
The MPs such as MP for Ablekuma North, Sheila Bartels, MP for Afram Plains North, Betty Krosbi Mensah and Asokwa MP Patricia Appiagyei, called for financial support to enable female lawmakers retain their seats.
According to the Asokwa MP, she believes is very important for them to work with the CSOs, wherever they are getting your funding from, adding that, it is critical that the CSOs appreciate the challenges they have in ensuring that they are servicing their constituencies and support them especially even during our primaries.
“What do you do to support and ensure that we retain our numbers and be able to even appreciate the numbers that we have in Parliament?”
Registering some displeasure, the Asokwa MP they may lose interest in contesting elections due to financial support.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
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